He actually came in a bit lighter than the designated weight than most expected.

Some suggested that he was grinding so hard to make the weight he could have under shot it, while others have mentioned the one million dollar fine per pound over the limit warning was enough motivation to ensure he came in under weight.

Leading up to the fight this week Chavez Jr was on a Latin ESPN channel talking about the fight.

For the benefit of non-Spanish speaking readers of ours it is understood that the tone of the interview was not particularly positive towards Chavez Jr.

Questioning him with a tone of criticism it has been reported by colleagues in Mexico.

Chavez Jr who was cutting weight, had enough of the hostility and towards the end of the interview told one of the reporters to:

“Go f*** yourself.”

He then proceeded to walk of set straight afterwards. Here’s how it happened: